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OdiousOutlaw wrote (edited )

People have this bizarre inclination towards serving ideas. Which I normally wouldn't really care about, but they also do it en masse and typically use a combination of force, manipulation, and violence to do so. Whether it's to advance civilization, "western values", communism, capitalism, or whatever other abstract idea that people will whip themselves into a frenzy over; this mass of people will commit any atrocity that they can think of so long as it advances the idea. And they'll use the idea to justify it as they always have.

TLDR; the biggest threat is zeal and the mass-empowered authority that it brings with it.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

MAGA not an idea tis a feeling

Ideas and feelings are not mutually exclusive; What do you think MAGA refers to? It refers to the ideal America that Trump's base wants to return to; nostalgia of an America in which they were prosperous. Use of "feelings" as an appeal are present in all forms of political thought. Anarchists, socialists, fascists, and tankies can be driven by anger and often are. MAGA is an idea, an abstraction that each of its adherents cling to. There's also the fact that the MAGA folks aren't the only people I'm referring to here.

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